Chin corrective device



Sept. 7, 1954 A. cs. MCCARTHY 2,688,324

CHIN CORRECTIVE DEVICE Filed July 30, 1953 E k INVENTOR. 3 45/1/55 GMCCARTHV A TTOR/VE'VS.

Patented Sept. 7, 1954 CHIN CORRECTIVE DEVICE Agnes G. McCarthy, Buffalo, N. Y. Application July 30, 1953, Serial No: 371,204

4 Claims.

' This invention relates to a cosmetic or chin contour corrective device which serves as a beauty aid by reducing or eliminating the appearance of fieshiness below the chin of the user.

Prior art devices, sometimes called chin straps, are provided for bedtime use in attempts to reduce or control the fleshy tendency known as a double chin. The corrective effect of these devices is problematical. However, the present invention provides a device which primarily reduces or eliminates the appearance of under-chin and, in fact, may comprise an attachment to existing necklaces, although the primary form illustrated herein is a necklace specially designed to accomplish its dual purpose as a beauty aid or cosmetic device and as an article of ornamentation.

The device of the present invention exerts a rearward 'pull at the surface of the flesh at two points at the side of the neck of the user, these points lying generally in vertical alignment with the ears and at points slightly below the jaw line. It is found that such a pull, which is of course actually very slight, draws back the skin to substantially reduce or practically eliminate the appearance of fieshiness beneath the chin without discomfort to the user and without any indication of the true corrective nature of the device. This fleshy appearance is really most often a muscular sagging or slackness.

A fuller understanding of the principles of the present invention will be had from a consideration of the accompanying drawing and the following detailed description of an exemplary form of the device of the present invention. However, it is to be understood that the principles of the invention are of general application and may be varied somewhat, as will appear from the following discussion. The principles of the present invention are not limited to the device set forth herein by way of example but only as defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a general side elevational view of a portion of the head and neck of a user of the device of the present invention with one form of the latter in a normal position of use;

Fig. 2 is a general top plan view of the form the present invention illustrated in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailed cross-sectional view through one of the flesh engaging members of the device of Figs. 1 and 2.

In the drawing like characters of reference denote like parts and the numerals l0 and II designate, respectively, the head and neck of a user of the form of the device of the present invention illustrated and described in detail hereinabove by way of example. An under-chin fieshiness of the general type which the device of the present invention is intended to correct, reduce, or eliminate is indicated in dot and dash lines in Fig. 1 at l2.

Essentially, the device of the present invention, in the form set forth in the accompanying drawing, comprises a pair of flesh or skin engaging members adapted to be secured at theopposite sides of the neck of the wearer, with a resiliently extensible or tension-exerting band extending around the back of the neck to connect between the two flesh or skin engaging devices.

The flesh or skin engaging members are designated generally I4 and I5, Figs. 1 and 2 and one of them is shown cross-sectionally on an enlarged scale and in detail in Fig. 3. The form of the flesh or skin engaging members may vary very widely in practice and the form set forth herein is merely by Way of example.

Referring to Fig. 3, the flesh or skin engaging device l5 there shown in detail comprises a disk it of metal, plastic, or other suitable material which in the illustrated instance has flanged outer edges to provide a raised central portion. A disk of adhesive material or of thin relatively flexible material coated at both of its opposite sides with adhesive is, in the form illustrated by way of example, adhesively secured to the central raised portion of disk I6 as at I! in Fig. 3.

Since both surfaces of the element I! are adhesively coated or of an adhesive nature, the outer surface thereof is adapted to be pressed against theskin at the proper point on the neck of the user and thus temporarily attached thereto. The adhesive disks [1 may be of a readily disposable nature so that a user may apply new adhesive disks IT to the metal or plastic disk [6 each time the device is worn or as often as is necessary to maintain a desired adhesiveness.

Disk I6 is provided with an eye I 8 or a similar attaching device for one end of a band l9, the latter being provided centrally with a detachable-connector or fastener 20 as shown in Fig. 2.

Band I!) may be of the spring-extensible type familiarly used as wrist watch bracelets or of any similar form adapted to exert a tensile pull upon the opposite flesh engaging members [4 and 15, when the device is in use. Also, the connector or fastener 20 may be of the usual type found in necklaces, watch bracelets or similar articles of ornamentation.

By experience, the user will know approximately the points at which the disks l4 and I5 are to be adhesively applied to the side of the neck, these points being such that when the extensible band I9 is secured as by means of the fastener 20, the band will exert a rearward .pull on each of the flesh engaging members l4 and I5 and thus draw the under-chin skin'an'd flesh rearwardly to approximately the full-line position illustrated in Fig. 1. The device, thus applied and used, is found to improve the chin line of a wearer to a remarkable degree when the wearer is prone to under-chin fieshiness, as described hereinbefore.

At their forward portions the flesh engaging members l4 and I5 are provided with means for attaching to a necklace band 22 of any desired ornamental nature so that when in use, and without any attempt at concealment of any part of the device, the entire device appears to be merely an ornamental necklace. In Fig. l the dot and dash lines '25 indicate the manner in which a wearers hair may conceal portions of the device but such concealment is, by the very nature of the device of the present invention, not at all essential.

Band I9 may be provided with any desired form of length adjustment to fit the user and to allow for the proper degree of rearward pull on the flesh engaging members 14 and I5. If desired the lengthwise adjustment may be incorporated in the fastener 20. The device of the present invention is illustrated herein as comprising'a complete-necklace but in one commercial form it may comprise merely "the members l4 and if: and the rearward band -I 9, with means on the members l4 and 15 for attaching ments to suit various personal tastes or various costume schemes.

As a further alternative the flesh engaging members [4 and I5 maybe arranged for ready attachment to opposite side portions of existing necklaces, in which case the rear portion of a necklace proper would serve as the rearward tensioning element. As described herein, it is preferred to employ resilient means for applying rearward tension to the members 14 and IE, but a non-extensible band would serve a similar a variety of frontal orna- 4 purpose. In the latter case, however, the length adjustment of the rear band portion would necessarily be much more precise in order to apply the desired degree of rearward tension to the members l4 and I5.

What is claimed is:

1. A necklace-simulating cosmetic device adapted to be applied to the neck of a user and comprising a pair of spaced flesh engaging elements including means for adhesively securing the same to opposite sides of the neck, a resilient flexible tension member connecting said elements and adapted to extend about the back of the users neck, and an ornamental band connected at its opposite ends to said elements and adapt-ed to extend forwardly to cooperate with said tension member to-simulate a necklace.

2. A necklace-simulating chin contour corrective device comprising a pair of spaced flesh engaging elements including means for securing the same to the skin atopposite sides of the neck, a resilient flexible tension member connecting said elements and adapted to extend about the back of the users neck, and an ornamental band connected at its opposite ends to said elements and adapted to extend forwardly to cooperate with said tension member to simulate a necklace.

3. In combination with a necklace device including a resiliently extensible rear portion, a pair of skin engaging elements attached to said necklace at opposite lateral points and including means for adhesively securing said elements to opposite sides of the neck whereby the rear resilient extensible portion of said necklace draws the skin engaging elements rearwardly and exerts a rearward pull on the under-chin surface flesh of the user.

4. In combination with a necklace device including a resiliently extensible rear :portion, a pair of attaching elements carried bysaid necklace at opposite lateral points and including means for securing said elements to the skin at opposite sides of the neck whereby the rear resilient extensible portion of said necklace draws the attaching elements rearwardly and thus exerts a rearward pull on the under-chin surface flesh of the user.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 895,295 Paris Aug. 4, 1908 1,338,090 Parvin Apr. 2'7, 1920 1,643,090 Rogers Sept. 20, 1927 

